Look I'm back! (I know I'm shocked too)
My next big project is my other sisters (Jo) 40th birthday quilt (Emma got one so it'd probably be bad form not to give Jo one 😄)
Which leads me on to the next bit... what to do!? Emma's' quilt just sort of happened organically so I didn't have to come up with a plan... its happening differently this time around!
I have been looking around for a while, taking screen shots/pinning quilt patterns that peaked my interest (as you do) and I thought I'd found it...
Confetti Stars! Its colourful, deceptively simple and there was a tutorial done on by Missouri Star Quilt Company (click here for that).
The tutorial used Bee Basics by Lori Holt (which I loved) and layer cakes (and I have none of those!).
I started searching online but I couldn't find any of that collection and alas I couldn't find any other ones in my price range that I liked... but brain wave - solids! who doesn't love a solid colour quilt?!
I looked through my stash and for some reason I have a crap ton of blue but everything else was seriously low on options... more online shopping! I was looking around one of my favourite online stores (plushaddict.co.uk) and this lovely print by Alison Glass came on my screen
Rainbow Feathers - Art Theory
and that was it, bye bye Confetti Stars hello random print that I had to try and make into a quilt.
I sat down with my paper, pencil and all the other bits I needed and set to work trying to figure it out.
It took lots of drawing to sort of get the sizing right but drawing are not the same a fabric - I got some of my random bits of fabric and sewed a couple of different sizes together
Basically I sewed it together like it was a herringbone but added the middle bit - getting the parts on the left side to line up was a bitch challenge but I thought it worked out pretty well.... the next bit is the kicker
I was googling something to do with the print, (I don't remember what but I'm annoyed I didn't do it sooner) and up pops
Its already a pattern!! What an idiot.
That being said I don't buy patterns, I'm a girl on a budget! So I googled the pattern some more to figure out if there was a better way of doing it and I found out that the proper pattern is foundation paper pieced - that's a whole other ball game that I had not considered, so off I went with this new found knowledge to try and make a better way of doing it and I totally did
That being said I don't buy patterns, I'm a girl on a budget! So I googled the pattern some more to figure out if there was a better way of doing it and I found out that the proper pattern is foundation paper pieced - that's a whole other ball game that I had not considered, so off I went with this new found knowledge to try and make a better way of doing it and I totally did
My ever changing nature though could not leave it alone so I've found other patterns I'm thinking about
I'm still leaning towards the Feathers pattern though. I'm gonna ponder it for awhile, I don't want to start something and not love it half way though.
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